EP 3430296 B1 20220504 - EXPANDING FUNCTIONS OF A PROCESS DEVICE
Title (en)
EXPANDING FUNCTIONS OF A PROCESS DEVICE
Title (de)
FUNKTIONENERWEITERUNG EINER PROZESSVORRICHTUNG
Title (fr)
EXTENSION DE FONCTIONS D'UN DISPOSITIF DE PROCESSUS
Publication
Application
Priority
CN 2016076476 W 20160316
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO2017156730A1] A board-level assembly (114) that is useful to expand functions of a valve positioner (100) on a valve assembly (102). The board-level assembly (114) can incorporate a main circuit board (116) and a smart circuit board (118). The main circuit board (116) may be configured to communicate with the smart circuit board (118), find a storage memory (160) on the smart circuit board (118), retrieve data from the storage memory (160), and use the data to configure functions on the main circuit board (116). In one implementation, the smart circuit board (118) can release and engage the main circuit board (116). This configuration can allow different configurations of the smart circuit board (118) to swap into the board-level assembly (114), each of the different configurations providing data the main circuit board (116) can exploit to change the functions of the valve positioner (100).
IPC 8 full level
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
G05B 19/0421 (2013.01 - EP US); G05B 19/0423 (2013.01 - EP US); G06F 1/206 (2013.01 - US); G06F 1/3287 (2013.01 - US); G06F 11/3013 (2013.01 - EP); G06F 11/3051 (2013.01 - EP US); G05B 2219/25101 (2013.01 - EP US); G05B 2219/25106 (2013.01 - EP US); G05B 2219/25107 (2013.01 - EP US); G05B 2219/37333 (2013.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 2017156730 A1 20170921; CN 108779876 A 20181109; CN 108779876 B 20230704; EP 3430296 A1 20190123; EP 3430296 A4 20190925; EP 3430296 B1 20220504; ES 2924081 T3 20221004; US 10268259 B2 20190423; US 2017269676 A1 20170921
DOCDB simple family (application)
CN 2016076476 W 20160316; CN 201680083606 A 20160316; EP 16893895 A 20160316; ES 16893895 T 20160316; US 201615159002 A 20160519